Nazir 7:1 - 7:2

כהן גדול ונזיר אינן מטמאין לקרוביהן – as it is written in the Torah portion of Emor (Leviticus 21:11 – “He shall not defile himself even for his father or mother.”) and the Torah portion of Naso (Numbers 6:7: “Even if his father or mother, or his brother or sister should die, he must not defile himself for them, since hair set apart for his God is upon his head.”)

היו מהלכים בדרך – not specifically regarding the High Priest do they dispute (i.e., Rabbi Eliezer and the Sages), for the same law applies regarding the common priest, they also dispute, and it is one reason.

על המת – even though it is not [a] complete [body] but rather that it has most of the human frame/skeleton which are two legs and one thigh, or the majority of number of limbs which are one-hundred and twenty-five limbs (out of two-hundred and forty-eight), even if there isn’t among them one quarter of a Kab (a measure of capacity, one-sixth of a Se’ah) which defiles in a tent, and a Nazirite shaves his hair upon [this contact]. But if the dead body lacks [both] the majority of number [of limbs] and the majority of the skeletal frame, the Naziite doesn’t shave on his being overshadowed [by the dead person] until it would have among the bones one-half of a Kab.

ועל כזית נצל – a thin secretion that comes out from the dead body like something moist that comes from the moldering of the flesh.

מלא תרוד רקב – a spoonful from the dust of the rottenness (i.e., a mass of earth from a grave containing parts of a decayed human body) of a dead body. But the rottenness does not defile other than when the dead person was buried naked in an ark of marble or something like this, for there is no other rottenness there other than from the body of the dead person. And the dead person was buried completely whole where there was no limb from it missing.

תרוד – a large spoon that holds a handful [of dust from the decaying body].

על השדרה – even if there isn’t any flesh at all.

וכן על עצם הגולגולת – of the head, even if there is no flesh in it.

ועל אבר מן החי ועל אבר מן המת שיש עליהם בשר כראוי – everything for the limb ad been attached to a living person, he would be able to raise up the web of new flesh or skin on a healing wound as appropriate through the same flesh which it is called, as appropriate, and it is less than an olive’s bulk.

ועל חצי קב עצמות – and even though a quarter of a Kab of bones defiles in a tent, there is a usage dating from Moses as delivered from Sinai (a traditional interpretation of a written law) that a Nazirite does not shave/cut off his hair other than on one-half of a Kab, and similarly on one-half of a LOG of blood (a LOG equals the volume of six eggs), and even though one-quarter of a Kab defiles, in a tent, the Nazirite does not shave other than one-half of a LOG.

ועל עצם כשעורה על מגעו ועל משאו – but not regarding his tent, for the bone that is a barley-bulk does not defile in a tent.

סותר את הקודמים – as it is written (Numbers 6:12): “The previous period shall be void,[since his consecrated hair was defiled].”

עד שיטהר – that he would immerse and sunset would pass after he would be sprinkled on the third and seventh days.